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John Boehner stands a decent chance of being the next House speaker, and he's got some deep-pocketed friends trying to improve the odds. Boehner has pulled in $7.1 million for his campaign and leadership committees, way ahead of Nancy Pelosi's $2.9 million. And that's not counting another $2 million for his "Boehner for Speaker" group that shares money with other Republicans, reports USA Today.

Insurance companies, drug manufacturers, and Wall Street firms are his biggest donors, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. "These industries have shown their hand to everybody by betting on John Boehner," says the watchdog group Public Citizen. "They will spend as much as they deem necessary to make sure Congress doesn't tread on their turf."

I would just like to the contribution menu published by the elected and running for election stating the cost to buy their votes once elected or continuing to be elected. something like this: Screw the American public on finance reform: Ala Carte price $1,000,000 Full Meal $10,000,000 F**K the Elderly out of Health Care: $2,000,000 $15,000,000 so on and so on for Big Business Needs and Lobbyists

Frontier94600

Sep 30, 2010 11:09 PM CDT

The reason why we haven't heard much from some of the Dems. is because they're taking money from the same people as the GOP. The GOP gets more because ALL of them are getting MORE money from their corporate sugar daddies.

Hershey-Squirts

Sep 30, 2010 9:25 PM CDT

Pelosi has pissed away 3 million dollars that I don't have nor my fellow americans.